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This author wrote about Mendel trying to gather enough money to buy a train ticket for his retarded
 39-year old son Isaac before midnight in his story "Idiots First". The protagonist of another novel prevents
 Ward Minogue from raping Helen Bober in a park only to rape her himself. This author wrote a novel in
 which Frank Alpine starts to work Morris Bober's grocery store after robbing it, while another book
 centers on a man falsely accused of the ritualistic murder of a Christian child during Passover. This
 author's first book centers on the rival of Bump Bailey who shatters his lucky bat called "Wonderboy." For
 10 points, this Jewish author of The Fixer who wrote about Roy Hobbs in The Natural.
This author wrote about Mendel trying to gather enough money to buy a train ticket for his retarded
 39-year old son Isaac before midnight in his story "Idiots First".
Bernard {Malamud}